Pilisvörösvár ( hu, Pilisvörösvári járás; german: Kreis Werischwar) is a district in north-western part of
Pest County. ''
Pilisvörösvár'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the
Central Hungary Statistical Region.
Geography
Pilisvörösvár District borders with
Szentendre District
Szentendre ( hu, Szentendrei járás) is a district in north-western part of Pest County. ''Szentendre'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Hungary Statistical Region.
Geography ...
to the northeast,
Budapest to the southeast,
Budakeszi District to the south,
Esztergom District ''(
Komárom-Esztergom County)'' to the northwest. The number of the inhabited places in Pilisvörösvár District is 9.
Municipalities
The district has 2
towns
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
, 1 large village and 6 villages.
(ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013)
The bolded municipalities are cities, ''italics'' municipality is large village.
Demographics
In 2011, it had a population of 53,201 and the
population density was 407/km².
Ethnicity
Besides Hungarian majority, the main minorities are the German (approx. 7,000), Slovak (1,100), Roma (500), Russian and Romanian (150).
Total population (2011 census): 53,201
Ethnic groups (2011 census): Identified themselves: 56,661 persons:
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Hungarians: 46,448 (81.98%)
*
Germans: 7,231 (12.76%)
*
Slovaks
The Slovaks ( sk, Slováci, singular: ''Slovák'', feminine: ''Slovenka'', plural: ''Slovenky'') are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak Slovak.
In Slovakia, 4.4 mi ...
: 1,097 (1.94%)
*Others and indefinable: 1,885 (3.33%)
Approx. 3,500 persons in Pilisvörösvár District did declare more than one ethnic group at the 2011 census.
Religion
Religious adherence in the county according to 2011 census:
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*Catholic – 23,848 (
Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Roman Catholic – 23,458;
Greek Catholic – 384);
*
Reformed
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Reform may also refer to:
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* ''Reform'' (album), a 2011 album by Jane Zhang
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* ''Reform'' (magazine), a Christian magazine
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– 4,318;
*
Evangelical – 652;
*
Orthodox
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Religion
* Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pag ...
– 78;
*
Judaism – 76;
*other religions – 1,153;
*
Non-religious – 7,577;
*
Atheism
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– 979;
*''Undeclared'' – 14,520.
Gallery
File:Pilisvörösvár légifotó.jpg, Downtown of Pilisvörösvár
File:View of Solymár from Solymár Cave.jpg, Panorama of Solymár
Solymár (german: Schaumar) is an urban village in northwest of Budapest metropolitan area, bordering the 3rd and 2nd districts of the city, as well as Nagykovácsi, Pilisszentiván, Pilisvörösvár, Csobánka, Pilisborosjenő, and Üröm. ...
File:Piliscsaba Stephaneum déli oldal.JPG, Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Piliscsaba
File:Pilisszántó.jpg, Aerial view of Pilisszántó
Pilisszántó ( sk, Santov) is a village in Pest County, Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the no ...
See also
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List of cities and towns in Hungary
References
External links
Postal codes of the Pilisvörösvár District
Districts in Pest County
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